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It has now emerged that the pseudo-left has backed and provided cover for a Teamsters administration with extreme right and even fascist sympathies. This shows there is no line which the pseudo-left will not cross.

Members of my chapter, Detroit’s Democratic Socialists of America, are mobilizing to support the United Auto Workers’ historic strike. Here’s some of what we’re doing — and what other socialists can do when the strike comes to their town.

The “ratification” sets up the next stage in the fight of the rank and file against the bureaucracy, to expose the sellout nature of the contract and the methods employed to ram it through.

From strike support to training organizers and supporting union drives, DSA members are helping to build a fighting labor movement.

A recent conference brought together democratic socialist elected officials from across the United States—including Bernie Sanders—to collaborate and strategize on advancing progressive public policy.

In mid-April, hundreds of young socialists from around the country gathered at the Chicago Teachers Union for a weekend of education and debate.

In an effort to disrupt and derail 340,000 UPS workers in their contract battle this year, the DSA has begun organizing “Strike Ready” campaigns to subordinate workers to the Teamsters bureaucracy and the Democratic Party.

UPS Teamster members, the 340,000 non-management UPS workers are covered by the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT), have been organizing escalating contract actions across the country as their contract fight heats up. If they strike, they will need the whole labor movement behind them to show that when we fight, we win! DSA stands in…